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> The real competitor is Microsoft Office Is it? I haven't used any desktop office suite in more than five years, at least. I would think the real competitor i
by SwellJoe 10y ago
> The real competitor is Microsoft Office
Is it? I haven't used any desktop office suite in more than five years, at least. I would think the real competitor is Google Docs, and I don't see any current credible path forward that brings OO or Libre Office to the web.
- ZenoArrow 10y ago> "I would think the real competitor is Google Docs" If you're happy with GD, that's cool, but I personally don't see much reason to switch. As for bringing open-source office suites online, it is happening: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_Online https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_...
- bobajeff 10y agoI'd love to see LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice compiled to the Web (eg. asm.js, WebAssembly)
- davidgerard 10y agoLO on the web is in progress. It'll have collaborative editing, the one killer feature of GDocs. GDocs is a terrible word processor (with absolutely shocking OOXML conversion abilities; I don't believe this as a serious objection to LO any more) and a terrible spreadsheet. The one feature it has is live collaborative editing. I am enormously pleased that LO 5.2 has working two-factor auth to GDrive, which means I can use a proper word processor or spreadsheet with it transparently. Even MS Office still doesn't talk transparently to GDrive out of the box.